The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science (Canto original series) - Softcover

Collins, Harry M.; Pinch, Trevor

 
9780521477369: The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science (Canto original series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521477360 ISBN 13: 9780521477369
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Debunks the idea that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation.

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Críticas

."..a fun book with a serious message....well calculated to stimulate debate....[Readers] will be encouraged to think again about the justifiable (and unjustifiable) requirements made of scientific expertise in a society where science and technology play so important a role." Ben Marsden, Isis

Reseña del editor

Science, it would seem, is neither all good nor all bad. It gives us nuclear accidents and cures for disease, agricultural self-sufficiency and death in space flight. Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Through a series of intriguing case studies of famous and not-so-famous scientific episodes, ranging from relativity and cold fusion to memory in worms and the sex lives of lizards, the authors debunk the idea that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation. Closer to the truth, they suggest, is the realisation that scientific certainty comes from interpreting ambiguous results within an order imposed by scientists themselves. This thought-provoking account will give general readers a new perspective on the place of science in society. '... perverse but entertaining ... the writing is deft, the stories are good and there is not a boring page.' Nature '... a must for every science student.' Science Reporter

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521477360
ISBN 13 
9780521477369
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
180
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